So tired... I actually got some exersize today. I have to do this everyday if I want to keep from having a heart attack at an unreasonable age. Damn, I'm out of shape. It's terrible. Why did I let myself go like that? I used to be in good shape... 10 years ago. Funny how time flies by like that. It seems like just a decade ago I was doing Aikido 4 hours a week... Oh, wait... Damn! I really am a lazy fuck! Sigh.
Posted at 20:23 # G
Good boy! Lare has learned. Congrats Lare!
Posted at 10:37 # G
Rejection I got rejected by Chapman University today. What will I do now? I have no idea. I get calls occasionally about jobs, I even had a few that looked like they might go somewhere (several follow up calls/phone interviews) but they never pan out. 'Don't call us, we'll call you' is all I'm left with. Not only can't I find a job, I can't even go back to school. Fuck, this is depressing. Oh, and I found out that I'm not diabetic yet, but close. What next?
Posted at 13:21 # G
1313 Harbor Blvd. I went to 'The Happiest Place on Earth' yesterday with Vicki. It's funny how different things look when you last saw them as a child (well, an adolescent, anyway). Not only are there a lot of new rides and areas, but it all looks so much smaller than I remember. I remember Main St. USA was huge, everything was! It was almost sad, seeing everything diminished. What was really sad was that there is no submarine ride anymore! The lagoon is there, and you can see all the stuff in the water, but the subs are gone. That sucks. Still, it was fun, though I recomend staying the fuck away from the 'Enchanted Tiki Room'. It is easily the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Ever.
Posted at 22:33 # G
Silky smooth... Satin undies are all well and good, but on a hot night they make your balls sweat. Just FYI...
Posted at 22:15 # G
Feh... I don't care what Lysa says; the Toejam gig was the last MC gig in my mind, and that's what counts. :-P
Posted at 11:45 # G
Richard Stallman can suck my ass! I don't like the GPL. Why? I don't like the fact that it will make my code GPL'd if I incorporate some GPL'd bits into it. I have been working on an app to do some encryption, and I had thought that rather than start from scratch I could 'port' some Java objects that do what I want to Objective-C/Cocoa, which is really easy to do. But the Java source is GPL'd, which would be no big deal for a little freeware app, I have no problem releasing my changes and the source to the freeware app. What bugs me is that I have thought up some really nifty uses for the crypto code that could come in handy in some commercial apps I have in mind, but if I use that code in those apps it would make all the rest of the code GPL'd. Who the fuck is going to by my app when they can just download the source and build it for free? So now, for the commercial use I have in mind, I will have to implement the algorithms from scratch (which isn't all bad, really, as the Java implementation isn't the most efficient). The really silly thing is that my 'home grown' version is going to be something I can see other people wanting to use, so I will release it as Open Source, but under a BSD style license that will allow anyone to do what they will with it, including keep it to themselves. I find it really stupid that a small bit of code can essentially poison the rest of an applications code base with it's license.
Posted at 22:55 # G
Unmentionables So, I never put a lot of thought into buying underwear. But now I think maybe it would be a good thing if I did. Mainly because a girl told me I should, and I care what she thinks, especially with regards to my underwear. Funny how some things can drastically change the way you view the world.
Posted at 22:34 # G
Hmmm Alex thinks my links should be in a new window. He may be right.
Posted at 22:28 # G
Finally...
Posted at 00:02 # G
Only in America... Get this...
Posted at 13:57 # G
Doing things the hard way... I sometimes think that the only way I can learn something is to do it the hard way, really dig into something at the lowest level until I really get it. Like this program I'm working on; it does encryption and decription of messages using a neat encryption system based on a deck of playing cards. I wanted to make a nice little app that I could use to encrypt/decrypt messages with (for no really good reason) and decided to write one. At first I thought I'd just write a wrapper app around a commandline program that does this, but now I'm doing it from scratch, because I want to better control the things the app can do. Is it more work? Yes, but in the long run I'll have learned a lot and be able to do more with the code that I created for it. Sometimes the hard way to do something is the best way to do it.
Posted at 20:42 # G
Go Lare! Lare finally blogged something Lysa and I have been hopng for: His punk rock reality check! Good stuff. It's funny how he can articulate stuff that's been bugging me better than I can, we are both fed up with the same things, but he puts it into perspective better than I can. I think it's because I have been into punk since I was 10 years old, and don't have another frame of reference.
Posted at 11:57 # G
One of those days... Ever have one of those days? Mine has been a doozy. See, I've had the nastiest case of jock itch for a week now, and regardless of the fact that I treated it it hasn't gotten better. So I go to a doctor and he says I might be diabetic. So either I have the worlds worst jock itch, or a debilitating disease, and I won't know for sure until the test results come back. Just lovely, isn't it? The only good thing that happened today is that my doctor gave me 5 dozen condoms for free, in various colors, just because. I guess it's like when they give kids a lollypop. When you grow up they give you condoms. Wheee! This has scared me worse than anything in a long time.
Posted at 20:38 # G
"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution" - Emma Goldman (1869-1940) I think Emma said it best (although it appears she never said that, as such). When I can't have fun doing something, then I don't want to do it. Think about it; what job have you most enjoyed? It was one that you could have fun doing, right? The band was the same. Way back in the days of Media Children, we thought the 'cause' (whatever that may have been at the time) was more important that the music or our own enjoyment. There was a feeling that we had to be miserable or we were not doing enough. How dare we have fun when so many people/animals/whatever were suffering?! It all came to a head when the singer of MC sent us (me, Rick and Sean) a memo (yes, a memo!) saying that we would have to dip into our beer fund to do something (I forget now what it was. Probably to make fliers about something stupid.), because god forbid we enjoy ourselves at practice too much. I think at that point we realized that we didn't like not having fun (shocker!) and when MC broke up and we immediately formed Litmus Green we all agreed that it was for the sole purpose of having fun playing punk rock, otherwise, why bother, right? So, here we are, 11.5 years later, and it isn't much fun anymore. And I'm not the only one who thinks this, Rick and Mat both feel the same thing. Sean even sees that we aren't happy, as does Lare. Lare is in it for the fun of it, but seeing that we aren't having any takes the fun out of it for him. (Sorry, Lare) It's not like we all hate each other, or anything like that, it's just that we've grown (up or old, I don't know) and now is the time to let it go, before we do start hating each other. The members of Litmus Green are my family, my best friends, and some of the best people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. I would rather see LG break up now, before any bitterness can set in, than risk that friendship. When you think about the fact that Litmus Green has had the same lineup for 11 years before we added Lare, you have to be a little bit amazed. After all how many bands can say that they had the exact same line up for 11 years? The thing that made that possible was our friendship. So, does this mean we will no longer be in bands or anything? No. Some of us are talking about doing something new, but if/when we do form something new it will be for the fun of it. Just a bunch of guys goofing off, once again. Back to what we always wanted.
Posted at 12:46 # G
We hold these truths to be self-evident...
Posted at 09:56 # G
Snaked! Alex stole my CSS! It's okay, though. I got it from someplace else...
Posted at 13:20 # G
Fubar Military slang is some of the best in the world. Like SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. Another great one is FUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Both apply to the state the band is in. It's what some might call a Cluster Fuck.
Posted at 19:56 # G
SNAFU Why is it that everyone acts like my leaving the band is the end of the world? For fucks sake, people, this doesn't mean the band is dead. Unfortunately it's looking more and more like my leaving is just the excuse that others needed to quit themselves. I feel bad for Lare; I invite him into the band and then it all falls apart because I leave...
Posted at 10:39 # G